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On one side, this is an incredible medical advancement and opens the door to a lot of other developments, but on the other side if my doctor said I was getting
by GravitasFailure 5y ago
On one side, this is an incredible medical advancement and opens the door to a lot of other developments, but on the other side if my doctor said I was getting injected with snake venom...
- krisoft 5y agoYour doctor wouldn’t say that. Your doctor would prescribe you polylepiscin or some other vaguelly medical and scientifical sounding name. You wouldn’t know that the compound originally was found in black mamba venom unless you like geeking out on medicine history. (And if you like geeking out on that you would already know that nearly all drugs comes from weird things.)
- rich_sasha 5y agoYes exactly. Bacteria in probiotic yoghurt come in from the guts... no one says “fancy like eating your own shit”?
- GravitasFailure 5y agoThank you for reminding me that fecal transplants are a thing and have shown real world benefits. The one time a suppository is preferable to oral administration.
- laumars 5y agoIn fairness, the U.K. adverts for probiotic yoghurts have said it contains natural bacteria found in the gut.
- GravitasFailure 5y agoI do enjoy geeking out over medical things in general and would trust that an approved pain killer would not be straight up venom and will happily take it, especially if it lives up to the hype. I'm still going to give any doctor that prescribes it to me just a little bit of grief, though.
- robbiep 5y agoWait till you find what we use salmon sperm for
- jes 5y agoI’ll see your salmon sperm and raise you one penis facial[1], as recommended by Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett. Few people seem to care that the source of the active ingredient in the penis facial is obtained through the egregious action of cutting healthy, valuable tissue off of male Korean infants who have no diagnosis of defect or disease. [1] https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/the-penis-facial-is-the-latest-disturbing-beauty-treatment https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/the-penis-facial-is-the-latest...
- elliekelly 5y agoLike Botox. The doctor doesn’t mention they’re injecting you with botulism (or maybe the toxin that causes botulism?) but they are.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoThe very common ACE inhibitor medications for high blood pressure (lisinopril and the others that end in -pril) are synthetic analogs of a compound found in the South American pit viper Bothrops jararaca. Scientists noted that being bitten by one of these snakes produces a rapid and profound drop in blood pressure. In the wild, of course, this causes the snake's natural prey animals to pass out so they can be eaten. So it's not like snake venom-related drugs are unprecedented.